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U.S. government's clearinghouse for public projects where they are looking for crowdsourced solutions. Some projects look for apps and other "innovative tools." Others are more like contests. You can browse by category or by government agency.

Pachyderm is an easy-to-use multimedia authoring tool. Designed for people with little multimedia experience, Pachyderm is accessed through a web browser and is as easy to use as filling out a web form. Authors upload their own media (images, audio clips, and short video segments) and place them into pre-designed templates, which can play video and audio, link to other templates, zoom in on images, and more. Once the templates have been completed and linked together, the presentation is published and can then be downloaded and placed on the author's website or on a CD or DVD ROM. Authors may also leave their presentations on the Pachyderm server and link directly to them there. The result is an attractive, interactive Flash-based multimedia presentation.

This is no longer managed by NMC. The website for the Pachyderm open source community is http://www.pachyforge.org/

"ISC provides consulting, facilitation, network building, leadership development, and training services so that our clients can innovate, think strategically and take vision to action. We build the capacity of all with whom we work by modeling the behaviors and transferring the skills and tools of collaboration. Today, one focus of our work is on integrating technology and new social media to achieve greater social impact in all of our collaborative efforts."

By Jabari Mahiri, published by Digital Culture Books, University of Michigan Press, 2011. This book documents a collaboration between a university and a local public high school, where the high school teachers "extended their own professional learning to revitalize learning in their classrooms." The collaboration was called TEACH (Technology, Equity, And Culture in High-performing schools). The book is offered free, through this web page.

Developed by Texifter, a company founded by Dr. Stuart Schulman of QDAP (see tag QDAP), this is a text analysis tool, with the capability of "reading" text from a variety of social media sources (as well as WordPress) and crowdsourcing the analysis over a peer group of the user's devising. This software has replaced PCAT (an earlier product).

DocVerse is a Microsoft Office plug-in that allows for real-time sharing and group editing of Microsoft documents (Office, Excel, PPT).

With the tagline "search, recommend, collaborate, remix," Folksemantic claims over 110,000 OERs. The product was developed for the Center for Open and Sustainable Learning. At the current time (Sept 2010), they are asking for help evaluating their recommender tool.

Shared Work.org is a website offering a communication tool and a collaborative work space.

Mendeley is both a (free) reference manager and an "academic social network." Users can import papers they are using for research, highlight, annotate, and tag them. Mendeley will provide an appropriately formatted citation for the paper. Additionally, users can search the citations (and descriptions) of papers that others have contributed to Mendeley, as well as creating and joining groups with like-minded researchers.

This is a neat "tool" for free-writing. When the user hits the "go" button, s/he will see a word at the top of the screen and have 60 seconds to write about it.

Also of interest: oneword appears to be built on a wordpress platform

By David Pierce, published on Makeuseof.com, November 8, 2008. This post outlines the advantages of Diigo over Delicious (both social bookmarking tools).

I am into my work because the following excerpt says so much to me..."goal state is initially only partially described" (every time!); the need to "scaffold the work of leaders" while "making a more improvisational style of collaboration possible". These phrases express truth and learning goals for me. "Her research on leadership in creative collaboration online explores how people can collaborate across distance on projects where the goal state is initially only partially described. Amy and her students are creating tools both to support existing creative collaborative practice by scaffolding the work of leaders, and also to try to transform that practice by making a more improvisational style of collaboration possible."

Posted by Hans de Zwart to his blog, Technology as a Solution..., July 19, 2011. de Zwart conducted an experiment with his virtual team (18 people) asking them to "narrate their work," using the microblogging tool Yammer. He tried to make the rules as easy as possible, so there was no requirement on how frequently they blogged, etc. At the end, he conducted a survey, which is summarized in this post. I strongly recommend reading the original post as well (link in 1st paragraph).

Is this the equivalent of our "Rants and Raves" or coffee klatch? Would microblogging seem less onerous a task, so that we might do it more frequently? Is this the "killer app" for project management?

"You Have All the Tools You Need to Build Better Brand Stories Why Storytelling Is Essential to Business Success. Just Ask Apple, Google, Chevy, Coke and Pepsi"

From About, "Datavisualization.ch is the premier news and knowledge resource for data visualization and infographics." There are all kinds of interesting features on their site, including Showcases (exemplary work), Tools, and useful Datasets.

On the topic of data visualization, this tool enables users to build a "visualization" of their resumes.

I think that this is an interesting idea, though I'm not sure that the few samples (created by employees) take the visualization concept far enough. I wonder if/how we could create a data visualization resume to reflect the 10-year experience of KPI.

Announcement of a grant from the Mellon Foundation for the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Washington to underwrite the Digital Humanities Commons.. "The Commons will enable faculty and graduate students to collaborate together with librarians, engineers and designers to animate their scholarship with new visualization tools and dynamic databases..."